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What's this long view inside this curious woven thing? It resembles a traditional fish trap, but it doesn't have any basket at the end, just a small opening.  Numerous tropical plants can provide the sort of fibrous material that can be woven and stay strong, such as the Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis) or Fan Palm (Borassus aethiopum) needed for this useful contraption.  It starts wide, then narrows to a small hole at the end. Importantly, it's a one-way trip once entering. Designed to catch mice, it encourages them to enter, then run down all the way to the end where they catch their heads and can't pull them free - no backing up.  Ah, a jovial few minutes, recalling with happy nostalgia the days of childhood when this fellow and his young friends would set these types of woven mouse traps in the forest, to come back the next day to see what had crawled inside. TIPTOPduTOP
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